US EditionWith AI Plan, Trump Keeps Chipping Away at a Foundational Environmental Law
UNITED STATES, JUL 28 – The Trump Administration's AI Action Plan targets industrial deployment and export promotion to strengthen U.S. leadership amid global competition, based on over 10,000 public responses.
- President Donald Trump’s AI plan is taking shape, with industry executive Jamie Khoo saying it is a positive driver for Asian data centre projects.
- Against the backdrop of US-China competition, US export curbs earlier created industry fears, but proposals call for clearer rules to aid Asia-Pacific AI chip use, said Jamie Khoo.
- DayOne, founded in 2022, operates centres in Malaysia, Indonesia, Hong Kong and Japan, with a 20-megawatt Singapore facility and a target of one gigawatt across Asia and Spain.
- In targeting environmental rules, Trump's plan proposes to amend NEPA to potentially grant categorical exclusions to data centres for permitting efficiency.
- Looking forward, Trump's AI Action Plan marks a shift from innovation to deployment, focusing on chips, energy, infrastructure, cloud, and promoting US AI exports of full packages.
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Trump plan targets NEPA to speed AI growth
KEY TAKEAWAYS: Trump‘s AI plan seeks to streamline NEPA environmental reviews NEPA is a 55-year-old law protecting the environment via impact studies Critics warn rollback threatens community input and scientific oversight Supreme Court recently narrowed NEPA’s scope for infrastructure projects When President Donald Trump rolled out a plan to boost artificial intelligence and data centers, a key goal was wiping away barriers to rapid growt…
When President Donald Trump unveiled a plan to boost artificial intelligence and data centers, a key goal was to remove barriers to rapid growth.
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With AI plan, Trump keeps chipping away at a foundational environmental law
When big infrastructure projects spring up, one crucial law — the National Environmental Policy Act — has for decades been a key way the government has required powerful industry interests to consider the environment and the public’s voice.
Everyone's a loser in Trump's AI Action Plan
On July 23, the Trump Administration released its long-awaited AI Action Plan. Short of copyright exemptions for model training, the administration appears ready to give OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and other major players nearly everything they asked of the White House during public consultation. However, according to Travis Hall, the director of state engagement at the Center for Democracy and Technology, Trump's policy vision would put states, a…
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